Woven fabric.



T. TAYLOR. WOVEN FABRIC.v APPLICATION FILED IAN.15, 1908.

Patented May 25, 1909a Jagwdrd Har-@655.

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IINITED STAS THOMAS TAYLOR, OF SAVILLE MILL, BOLTON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO T. TAYLOR LIMITED,

OF SAVILLE MILL, BOLTON, ENGLAND.

WOVEN FABRIC.

Application led January 15, 1908.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS TAYLOR, a subject of the King of Great Britain., residing at Saville Mill, Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in l/Voven Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of woven figured fabrics and particularly to woven figured fabrics having a plain ground and a raised lain 'ligure woven by the use of a jacquar and two heald shafts, the jacquard and heald shafts being used to form the ground and the heald shafts only to form the figure, and my improvements consist essentially in my articular method of weaving such raised figured fabrics with one warp only (by preference) and with one weft from a single shuttle, drawing one third of the warp yarn into two healds for binding the weft in the raised figure, and drawing the remaining two thirds of the warp yarn which floats underneath the figure into the jacquard harness for the weaving of the ground and interweaving both the warp yarn from the healds and the warp yarn from the jacquard harness with the weft into a plain cloth ground having a raised plain cloth figure substantially as hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying sheet of diagrams in which- Figure l is a diagram representing the drawing-in of the yarn into the jacquard harness and healds. Fig. 2 is a diagram representing the order of shedding, X signifying up, and the numerals l, 2, 3, 4, denoting picks. Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken across the waip of my improved woven figured fabric. Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic longitudinal section taken across the weft and showing all the warp ends.

In carrying out my invention I use only one weft from a single shuttle and by preference only one warp, of one count of yarn; but I use both a jacquard machine and two heald shafts and draw portions of the warp ends into each, as shown in Fig. l, but none into both the jacquard harness and the healds. The jacquard harness is tied up in pairs in such a manner that two ends are worked by one and the same hook and this gives a bolder stitch and effect in defining the figure of the cloth.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1909.

Serial No. 410,975.

The yarn worked by the acquard consists of two thirds of the whole warp and this yarn weaves only in the making of the ground (together with the yarn i-n the healds as herein after described) and floats underneath the figure, not being interwoven in the figure part. The remaining one third of the warp is drawn into two healds and this portion of the warp alone interweaves with the weft to make a plain cloth figure. This portion of the warp also interweaves with the two thirds in the acquaid harness in such a man nei' that the whole of the warp, both jacquard and heald portions, makes a plain ground to the cloth, with a plain figure upon it made by one third of the war only (together with the weft) as previously described and as illustrated by the diagrams.

It will be seen from the extended Fig. l that there are twice as many ends in the jacquard harness as in the healds and that the ends in the two healds are drawn alternately on the heald staves so that each heald end divides one of the two pairs of harness threads each pair of which is tied to one hook, the three ends, t. c., two jacquard ends divided by one heald end, are all drawn through the same dent in the reed, not shown; the ends in the healds form a plain cloth on the figure, and also combined with the ends in the harness make a plain weave of the whole ends of the warp in the ground.

F rom Fig. 2 it will be seen that the jacquard is up at every pick but it falls and rises to change cards between each pick and to raise one half of the yarn in the harness where the ground is required at one pick, and the other half of the yarn in the harness where the ground is required, at the other pick; where figure is re Auired the jacquard does not lift any yarn. ne half the yarn in the healds is raised each pick and in the ground combines with the yarn in the harness to make the plain ground, but in the gure the yarn in the healds makes a plain cloth on the figure, the yarn in the harness not being raised by the jacquard under the figure but floats at the back of the figure, as shown best in the diagram, Fig. 3.

hat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is The new or improved woven figured fabric in which the ground is a plain weave composed of the whole of the warp yarn inter- Woven With the weft, and the raised ignre naine to this specication in the presence oi is also a Eleni Weave composed of one thlrd I two subscribing Witnesses.

only of t e Warp yarn interwoven With the weft, While the remaining tWo thirds of the THOMAS TAYLOR' Warp yarn is floated underneath the raised Witnesses:

figure snbtantially as herein described. HENRY BEMOVILLE BARLOW,

In testimony whereof I have signed my HERBERT ROWLAND ABBEY. 

